Cheers Amos - in my copious free time (not! :-) I'll try to have a look at that. My problem with most of the stuff I've seen is that the people doing the looking were clearly biased. The mind-so-open-that-the-moths-fly-in-and-out situation is sadly a bit too common around these kind of areas, where people might well be cherry-picking their reporting to support their spiritual (or other) beliefs. :-( As I said earlier, that's the basic problem with dualism - how do you handle it when one half of the pair (the physical side) keeps encroaching on what was previously thought to be the other side of the dividing line?
Not that scientists can't also be biased - it's always worth keeping an open mind. That's what annoys me with Dawkins, is that he combines his scientific input (which is considerable) with his anti-religious beliefs.
I guess my view is that I don't mind it not being easily repeatable, so long as at some level it *can* be shown to happen more than once - that's basic epidemiology. And as a software engineer, I'm fully aware of bloody awkward bugs that only crop up on the night of the full moon whilst the user dances on one leg and waves a rubber chicken. :-) The trick for those kind of things is to prepare ahead for those kind of things, so you can nail them when they *do* happen. In the OOB case for example, the classic test of an envelope on top of a cupboard will do for starters.